Church of Elijah the Prophet (Black)

First Temples

The first wooden church in the name of St. Elijah the Prophet was built in the village of Black back in 1730, but in 1760 it burned down along with the village.

At the same place, thanks to the efforts of the palace peasant Miron Danilov, a new wooden church was built in the name of the Epiphany of the Lord. At the request of the priest Alexei Gavrilov, she was consecrated in 1763. This was evidenced by a letter: " Ladoga order, Prechistinsky Gorodensky churchyard, in the Black exhibition, newly built, wooden, in the name of the Epiphany of the Lord, a warm church on the former church, antimins, which was left from the church, to be consecrated by the cathedral, to be consecrated by the Cathedral of Antimins ^{[1 ]} . At the top there is the signature of the Archbishop of Veliky Novgorod Dimitri , and at the end: " This blessed letter is written and given, signed by our hands and sealed, in the reigning St. Petersburg of Karpov, at our church of St. Nicholas in 1763, September 19, 1963 on the " ^[one]

Stone Church

By the end of the 19th century, without being restored for a long time, the Church of the Epiphany was in complete decline. In 1871, Metropolitan Isidor of Novgorod, St. Petersburg and Finland, driving along the Staroladozhsky Canal , visited the church and, responding to the requests of the parishioners, donated money (15 thousand rubles) for the construction of the new church, donated by the nobleman Arkady Ivanovich Kasatkin, director of the Russian construction society, and indicated the place of construction.

The construction of the new church went according to the plan approved by the provincial government on August 31, 1873 and executed by the architect Vladislav Pilts. The construction of the church cost 19 thousand rubles. The temple is cross-shaped, with a semicircle for the altar, stone, single-headed, with a bell tower. The dome and the bell tower are wooden. The main altar was consecrated on October 5, 1875. After the construction of the new church, the old one was demolished, a chapel was built at the place where its altar was located, the rest was used on a two-story house for the school. Initially, the tribute consisted of a priest, a clerk and a sexton, since 1876 a priest and a psalm-reader.

The temple had such sights as the temple image of the Prophet Elijah , fed by crows, taken out of the old church during a fire, and the Epiphany icon painted in 1763.

History after 1917

Divine services in the church of Elijah the Prophet were not interrupted until 1937, when the then rector of the priest, John Pastukhov, was arrested and shot by sentence by the Special Troika of the Leningrad Region's NKVD.

Since 1946, worship services resumed and continued until 1960, later the temple was closed and gradually destroyed.

With the blessing of Metropolitan Vladimir of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, June 22, 2006 began the revival of parish life and the restoration of the church. Restoration work has begun, which is ongoing to this day.

On August 2, 2006 - on the day of remembrance of the Holy Prophet Elijah - the Water Sanctuary was served in the fence at the altar of the Temple and the Temple Icon was installed on the gates of the fence. On January 19, 2007, on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord , the Great Blessing of the Water took place in the Temple.

On August 2, 2008, on the patronal feast in memory of the Prophet Elijah of God, Archpriest John Malinin and the clergy of Sampson Cathedral performed the first divine liturgy after the closing of the church. In 2008, a small wooden chapel was built in which weekly services are held.

Alexey Bordyugovsky . Information about the St. Petersburg Diocese, written on December 20, 1883